Standing in the Rain

There’s nothing like a cold all day shower to make you want a good, hot bath. After standing in cool fall rain for most of the day my first goal after work was getting warm.

It’s like this: my job that rainy day was cutting lumber on a saw that sits outside. In sunshine, you might get a tan, but in rain, you begin to rust.

My old red rain slicker shed much of the water from my head and torso—and distributed it to my jeans and socks. It wasn't long before even my gloves were saturated. I grew intensely cold and when I tried to pull my gloves off, I found I had lost much of the feeling in one of my fingertips.